Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course of the specious, New York Giants Coach Steve Owen deplored the Ivy League's ban on post-season participation, because it kept players out of the East-West Shrine Game, a benefit staged in San Francisco for a local crippled children's hospital...
Claverly Hall's wall, long a vehicle for erudite expression and esoteric language, gave local literati a break this week with its first readable sentiment in several months, a limerick in plain English. Apparently scrawled in extreme haste in the dead of night, the limerick reads...
After being a schoolteacher and a coach, Rice E. Cochran thought he knew and liked boys. When a local minister asked him to take over the church Boy Scout troop, he was happy to agree. Now, 20 years later, he has published the results of that decision in a new book called Be Prepared!* (Sloane, $3.50). Though he writes under a pseudonym (he is now an NBC scriptwriter) and keeps his town anonymous, Cochran manages to paint a lively, hair-raising picture of what it is like to be one of the most bothered and bewildered of U.S. educators...
...present candy often proved more alluring than the future carrot. The gardener sometimes had to pursue the local roughs who were found sneaking along the back fence for one reason or another. Time & again a girl would sneak out before daylight with the petty cash or any other item she could lay hands on. Dickens became a well-known figure in the magistrate's court. Although few statistics remain, it appears that between 1847 and 1853, the home cared for 56 women, ten of whom were expelled for incorrigible misconduct and seven of whom ran away. Of those...
...Harvard master's degree or its equivalent is required for the two year study which leads to the degree, Doctor of education. No these are required; instead administrative projects in local schools will be substituted...